Kindergarden

Minimum Criteria for Kindergarten Promotion to First Grade
at Engelwood Elementary School

The following standardized testing results will be a factor:

Student will score above a 28 on Letter Naming Fluency as measured by the DIBELS.

Student will score above a 9 on Phoneme Segmentation Fluency as measured by the DIBELS.

Student will score above a 14 on Nonsense Word Fluency as measured by the DIBELS.

Your child’s performance on the skills below will be a factor in the decision of your child’s promotion to first grade:

Reading

The student…

recognizes letters of the alphabet

associates sounds with letters of the alphabet

understands basic phonological/phonetic principles (ex., knows rhyming words, knows words that have the same initial and final sounds and blends individual sounds into words

understands how print is organized and read (ex., locating print on a page, matching print to speech, knowing parts of a book, reading from top-to-bottom and left-to-right and sweeping back to left for the next line

uses a variety of sources to build vocabulary (ex., word walls, other people and life experiences)

classifies objects by color, shape, size, kind and which do not belong in a group

predicts, extends and creates patterns

knows that symbols can be used to represent missing or unknown quantities (ex., fill in the missing number in 5, 6, _ , 8)

Data Analysis and Probability

The student…

knows how to display answers to simple questions involving two categories or choices using concrete materials or pictures on a graph or chart

interprets data in pictorial or concrete materials (ex., pictures on a graph or chart)

interprets data in pictorial or concrete graphs

uses concrete materials, pictures or graphs to show range and mode

knows if a given event is more likely, equally likely, or less likely to occur

Ideas for helping your child at home

Language Arts

Make flash cards for upper and lower case letters and practice them daily.

Take your child to the library to get a library card and choose books. Talk, sing, listen and read to your child every day.

Put letters in a bag and have your child reach for a letter and say the sound. Have him/her reach in for another letter. If your child does not know a sound, say the sound and put it back in the bag. Count how many sounds they can do in a minute.

Write a note each day to put in your child’s lunch box or on your child’s pillow.

Read a nursery rhyme. Reread leaving out the last word of every other line of the rhyme for your child to say.

Mathematics

Allow your child to help you sort the groceries before putting them away (canned goods, boxes or items that need refrigeration).

Have a bag of various objects. Have your child sort by size, then shape, color, texture, etc.

Practice counting orally to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s using a hundred chart.